Parenting & Family Quote by Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck’s gag lands because it’s a perfectly adult retrofit of childhood innocence: a goofy memory of a stretchy superhero gets rebranded, with a wink, as an obvious sexual metaphor. The first half performs nostalgia as camouflage. He sets up the premise with the flat sincerity of a kid recalling a comic strip, even admitting he “didn’t fully appreciate” it - a phrase that sounds like emotional maturity but is really a trapdoor into innuendo. When he pivots to “popular with the ladies,” the line clicks into place as a low-stakes revelation: of course a man who can extend his “extremities” has a built-in punchline.

The intent isn’t just to be crude; it’s to be relatable in a specific, modern-celebrity way. Affleck plays the guy who’s self-aware enough to confess the thought, but casual enough to make it seem like the thought found him. That’s important subtext: he’s not bragging, he’s admitting to the shared mental leap the audience is already making. The humor comes from the gap between the wholesome cultural artifact (a comic hero designed for slapstick physics) and the adult lens that turns any superpower into a dating advantage.

Contextually, it also pokes at how pop culture is engineered for double readings. Comics sold to kids are full of bodies that morph, stretch, and exaggerate - visual language that’s innocent until puberty hands you a new decoder ring. Affleck’s line is less about Plastic Man than about what time does to the way we watch, remember, and laugh.